Here's a selection of new books, drawn from our list of summer reading suggestions, that could make good Father's Day gifts for a father figure in your life. "Big Chief" (Simon & Schuster), by Jon ...

Most great baseball fiction - books such as Bernard Malamud's "The Natural," W.P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" and Kevin Baker's "Sometimes You See It Coming" - are heavy on the realism, with a touch of ...